Interior developing cloud infrastructure services
Cloud computing will fundamentally change the shared services model, National Business Center director predicts.
Agencies face tough questions on how to deploy cloud computing
Security issues, data privacy, the acquisition process, standards and service level agreements were among the chief issues that feds grapple with.
DISA ramps up cloud-computing platform
The Defense Information Systems Agency is boasting that its new cloud-computing platform can provide a NIPRnet-connected, production-ready virtual server within 72 hours.
Feds offer White House plenty of ideas on budget-cutting
The Save.Gov Web site launched by the White House soliciting ideas on how to cut spending in the 2011 budget has drawn more than 10,000 suggestions in its first week.
NSF commissions supercomputer to visualize ever-larger data sets
The 2,048-core system, nicknamed Longhorn, will be capable of 20.7 trillion floating-point operations per second, will help researchers keep pace with the explosive rate of data production, TACC officials said.
Cut the cords to storage networking
Agencies running stand-alone Fibre Channel-based Storage Area Networks may be able to reduce the amount of cabling snaking through their data centers, thanks to an emerging converged network protocol named Fibre Channel over Ethernet.
Denial-of-service-attack worries dominate Cisco patching
If the latest semiannual round of security advisories from Cisco are any indication, DOS attacks continue to be a serious — and largely unsolvable — problem for networks.
How OpenID can lighten the load on user authentication schemes
By partnering with OpenID, the federal government plans to take advantage of authentication platforms in the commercial and open-source sectors to give users a single account for government services that are not sensitive in nature.
GSA doesn't expect overnight success with apps store
Following the lead of Amazon, the General Services Administration has gotten into the online sales business, launching a storefront operation called Apps.gov that resells online information technology services.
Consortium releases comprehensive new version of HR-XML
This the third version of a set of Extensible Markup Language-based schemas for human resources tasks and is a complete rewrite and expansion of earlier versions.
When nanoseconds matter, these products can help
Network time-synchronization products from Symmetricom and Napatech keep time straight across Ethernet and Internet Protocol networks.
Cureton tabbed as next NASA chief information officer
NASA selects Linda Cureton to be new CIO after nearly year-long search.
Standards body issues draft advisory on maintaining open government data
While building out publicly facing data repositories, government agencies should separate the user interface layer from the data being presented, the World Wide Web Consortium says in a draft report on maintaining open government data.
Google readies government cloud offering
Google's government cloud offering will offer Google Apps in a dedicated environment within undisclosed Google facilities in the United States.
DOD rethinking build versus buy for software apps
DISA, Army exploring a new way to acquire applications more quickly and with less cost by building them in-house.
Survey finds feds will be looking for a few good IT pros
Federal agencies will need to hire more than 270,000 new employees during the next three years, information technology pros among them, according to the Partnership for Public Service.
GSA's Casey Coleman sees mix of public, private services in the cloud
Government applications that don't have stringent requirements under the Federal Information Security Management Act could be the first available for testing in a public cloud environment, according to the leader of the Federal CIO Cloud Working Group.
Facebook sets up government page
The site will help agencies set up their own outreach pages.
Open Government Directive only weeks away
Agencies will need formal plans on providing machine-readable data to the public.
NOAA finishes supercomputer
Stratus to help NOAA improve weather forecasts and extend warning times for all forms of severe weather.
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